Day Care Center Role in Developing Healthy Habits in Kids
According to a survey conducted by The Academy of Pediatrics Association, 89.9% of pediatricians believe that the diseases we get as adults (heart disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes) may be prevented by emphasizing physical fitness in childhood.
Active play is the key to children’s lifelong health and fitness. There are simple fitness strategies that are preventative, effective and can even be fun. In the parenting book Your Active Child, author Rae Pica identifies five fitness factors that affect anyone’s health – child or adult’s. They are cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition (percentage of lean body tissue to fat).
Your child can develop positive fitness factors if you provide the following each day:
• Wholesome, nutrient-filled meals and snacks
• Reasonable amounts of developmentally appropriate physical activity
• Adequate hours of sleep
Your child will need daily playful activity that engages both large and small muscles. He or she will build body, mind, and self-esteem while discovering all the amazing things the body can do.
At Crème de la Crème we help you set the stage for the fitness factors listed above. During outdoor time as well as in the Creative Movement Studio or Gym, we provide space for children to creep, crawl, roll, walk, run, hop, skip and jump. We encourage them to move over, under and through things; pivot to change direction and twist, bend, balance, stretch, sway and dodge. We also provide opportunities for active play with balls, beanbags, trikes, hula hoops, sand and dirt digging tools, Frisbees, plastic and foam bowling pins, scarves for dancing to music and toy musical instruments for marching.
Source: Creme de la Creme: The Scoop, Spring 2010, Volume 8 Number 2
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